Obligatory mention of Kagi

And my code link for 3 people to try it for 3 months.

I can agree. I’m donating to both, because more options is better. But really I’m pulling for Servo. It’s silly nostalgic sentimentality. But I like the idea of it’s traceable lineage back to Mosaic.

They have a functioning “light weight” browser people can use for testing. And honestly, wrapping all the browser features around an engine, is very much the easy part. That’s why there are so many browsers with so few rendering engines.

Now that’s a phone

Yah. I’m torn. On the one hand it’s kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which for the second time tonight, gets me dangerously close to a long rant about the shitty media we have.

I’m pretty close to a free speech absolutist. I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed so completely with TechDirt. This is not a TikTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. Corporations aren’t people. The government is fully within it’s rights to force a foreign state owned corp to sell or shutdown operations in the US.

Like you said this is another Corp vs Gov power play, and the public has largely been duped into supporting the Corpos again.

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It’s the open source version of Adobe Lightroom.

That’s what I was thinking.
I’m pretty sure FUTO isn’t the only one either.
This doesn’t seem like new tech.

American social media platforms creating an environment where propaganda and misinformation flourish and refusing to take action against it has the same net effect as TikTok altering internal algorithm.

Targeted intent vs general apathy is a massive difference.

That could be. It sounds plausible. Do you have any studies?

What intelligence agency?
NCRI is a social media research group.

Lots of people think the US social media platforms do that. But none of the scientific studies have been able to show it.
The US companies are all purely driven by engagement, to maximize profit. The most effective source of that engagement, changes from person to person. But it’s most commonly what you might call “Rage Bait”.

Twiter’s recent bend toward the right, is primarily self selection of it’s users. As the left… left… the platform, the pool of available content shifted right; Causing even more to leave. Unless you have some paper I haven’t seen.

And Facebook selling data, is entirely different and unrelated. Nobody (no lawmakers) care about that.

Yah. Whatever happens, TikTok will NOT be leaving the US market.

Not quite. TikTok has been shown to tweak their algorithm against criticism of China. That’s the real reason for the concern. Their ability and willingness to purposefully manipulate people.

Again. Not a TikTok ban. A ByteDance ban.
If BytDance sells, TikTok stays.

Truly free markets suck. The inevitably become dominated by a small number of monopolies, who fuck over everyone else as hard as possible every day …

Nope. I wouldn’t nitpick this situation or that.
That one time I tried it, I realized that when I click away from the tab I don’t care if see the video anymore. Listening to the audio is all I want in that moment.

Picture-in-Picture: auto-open on tab switch is totally annoying.
I also tested it once, and turned it back off immediately.

They also suggest splitting off Android and sharing data. But that seems barely a start. If you’re going through the effort to take them down, take them all the way down.

They should split off nearly every major product and service. Make it a couple dozen separate companies.